First the headline; A Belfast interface worker has called on the authorities to keep protesters away from interface flashpoints. Gosh..let’s read a little more.. Twenty-nine police officers were injured at the weekend in rioting at east Belfast’s Short Strand interface. It followed a loyalist protest over the decision to restrict the flying of the union flag at Belfast City Hall. Joe O’Donnell, director of the Belfast Interface Project, said keeping rival … Continue reading →

I’ve noticed the BBC giving Baroness Grey Thompson a soapbox to attack Coalition moves to reform Disability benefit. She was on Today again this morning and allowed a free run. It seems that having a disability means never having to be challenged on your views on Welfare. This is part of a broader campaign by a group called We are Spartacus – a group given a VERY sympathetic hearing here … Continue reading →

Morning all! Monday comes and so does a new Open Thread for you to detail the bias! Enjoy!

  Interesting the things that Donnison tweets…and yet which don’t  get reported on the BBC main news.   Contrast the casualty figures here…and consider that we are told the Israel/Palestine conflict is the world’s most dangerous  apparently…never mind the 5 million dead in the Congo…or the vicious Mexican drug wars……why does the BBC spend so much time reporting on the goings on in Israel relative to the rest of the … Continue reading →

    Jon Donnison ?@JonDonnison Haaretz: #Hamas defeated #IDF in social media virtual warfare during #Gaza conflict, Israeli study shows http://htz.li/TylOQR     The BBC are praised for training Palestinian journalists…from what I saw it would seem the Palestinians had little to learn from the BBC in terms of presenting their case…whereas the BBC journalists had rings run around them and were gulled into presenting Palestinian propaganda as news….though of … Continue reading →

    But you’d be wrong.  Could it be that the first report below about the high cost of wind farms reveals Labour to have made an enormous, expensive error…maybe an ‘omnishambles’…and that the green agenda is going to cost everyone an absolute fortune with no guarantee that we will see any elecricity at the end of it all…..two of the BBC’s pet projects…the Labour Party and the Green agenda…..both … Continue reading →

      You may often come to the conclusion that BBC presenters are ignorant of the subjects on which they are interviewing  and have undue reliance on, or respect for, the interviewee ‘expert’ and subsequently fail to challenge him or her on  their statements…either out of lack of subject knowledge, too much deference or all too often a set of beliefs which are in line with those being stated … Continue reading →

I see that the police trade union has been busy using the BBC  for a little scaremongering and shakedownism! “The number of young police officers in England and Wales has fallen by nearly 50% in two years. There were 9,088 officers aged under 26 in 2009-10 but only 4,758 in 2011-12, figures obtained by the BBC show. In Cleveland, North Wales and Staffordshire the fall in the number of officers … Continue reading →

I was sorry to hear of Andrew Marr’s stroke and wish him a full and speedy recovery. I may not agree with his politics but I hope he gets well soon. However I did  tune in to his programme this morning to watch James Landale interviewing Labour leader Ed Miliband and what a difference it made! I felt Landale was to the point, dogged and took no nonsense. Miliband look rattled … Continue reading →

Bias comes in many guises. A Biased BBC reader notes concern about the BBC using non-BBC material on news bulletins and their NORTHERN IRELAND website without declaration or caveat; “In the case of the driver last night in Newtownabbey a clip of the incident was played this morning at 9am on Radio Ulster with I think no introduction at all and certainly no mention of the source of the material … Continue reading →